Re: pthreads and the pkgsrc build environment

Am 26.11.2012 21:09 schrieb "Greg Troxel" <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>:
> I think it's a bug that within pkgsrc, 'cc -pthread' succeeds when
> (the wrapper) is executed during a build of a package that has not
> declared a dependency on pthreads. Rather than working, the call
> should error out, just as linking a library that is not bl3'd in to
> the package will fail.
>
> Opinions?

I am against this, as it would lead to a lot of churn for no good reason. Probably more than half of pkgsrc would likely break with such a change.